Tuesday, April 16, 2013

So you are going to learn Rails...

As it is a very compact course, and covers a broad curriculum it would benefit from everybody having all the tools we are going to need already installed.

Many Ruby resources do a great effort to address all three major OS when preparing installation and set-up instructions. So does Learn Ruby the Hard Way, or Rails Tutorial Book. I appreciate that effort, but I'd rather choose a different path.

I am the teacher, students will have to follow, copy or otherwise mimic many things I will do during the course, GNU/Linux is my OS of choice, so if they are not using it yet (but have a decent machine) they can follow these instructions to minimize environment issues, that should be outside the scope of such a short course: